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A VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY NEWSLETTER 170-7375 Vol. 3, No. B March 2B, 1974
New
M o re
Major Approved·
Programs Sought
VCU's newly created Department of
Political Science will open its doors to
about 75 majors this fall, according to
Dr. Nelson Wikstrom, acting chairman
of the departme nt.
Offering a Bachelor of Arts degree,
the program initially will include
about 25 courses. Plans are being
considered for enlarging the
department to include new courses on
. the presidency, congress and the
judiciary, along with an independent
study seminar in politics for the
1975·76 school year.
The push for a political science
department began two years ago at the
request of students.
"Each year we lost students who
went elsewhere to get a political
science major. (Continued on page 2)
SPRUCING UP THE UNIVERSITY,student crews, employed through the
Department of Buildings and Grounds. groom the West Campus and plant flowers
for the summer.
TWA Program
Used At MeV
For Employes
MCV Hospitals are using a program
supplied DY the Trans·World Airlines
(TWA) Breech Training Academy to
instruct hospital personnel in their
contact procedures with the public.
The Breech Academy trains TWA's
stewardesses and other public contact
personnel.
The first session, a one-day course
for 25 employees from unit
rna nagement, admitting, reception
areas of outpatient clinics, dietary tray
hostesses and cashiers, was held last
week, and focused on improving
em p I oyee·public contact. If the
program is as successful at MCV
Hospitals as it has been at Johns
Hopkins University Hospitals (the only
other hospital in the nation which has
used the course), it will expand to
include all MCV employees who meet
the public.
" The entirety of the MCV staff has
always shown t h e greatest
consideration for the patient and his
family." said Charles Sweat, MCV
Hospitals Administrator. "This is why
we will be the first hospita l in Virginia
to en list t he service of the TWA school
in a program for hospita l personnel
who meet patients and the pu blic."
"Every service area of the hospi tal
wi ll be affected : from delivery of a
patient's food tray to accommodating
the family's request for help or
information ," he said .
"As part of our responsibility as a
university hospital, we should be on
the frontier. The program will help us
take better care of people." Sweat
added.

A VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY NEWSLETTER 170-7375 Vol. 3, No. B March 2B, 1974
New
M o re
Major Approved·
Programs Sought
VCU's newly created Department of
Political Science will open its doors to
about 75 majors this fall, according to
Dr. Nelson Wikstrom, acting chairman
of the departme nt.
Offering a Bachelor of Arts degree,
the program initially will include
about 25 courses. Plans are being
considered for enlarging the
department to include new courses on
. the presidency, congress and the
judiciary, along with an independent
study seminar in politics for the
1975·76 school year.
The push for a political science
department began two years ago at the
request of students.
"Each year we lost students who
went elsewhere to get a political
science major. (Continued on page 2)
SPRUCING UP THE UNIVERSITY,student crews, employed through the
Department of Buildings and Grounds. groom the West Campus and plant flowers
for the summer.
TWA Program
Used At MeV
For Employes
MCV Hospitals are using a program
supplied DY the Trans·World Airlines
(TWA) Breech Training Academy to
instruct hospital personnel in their
contact procedures with the public.
The Breech Academy trains TWA's
stewardesses and other public contact
personnel.
The first session, a one-day course
for 25 employees from unit
rna nagement, admitting, reception
areas of outpatient clinics, dietary tray
hostesses and cashiers, was held last
week, and focused on improving
em p I oyee·public contact. If the
program is as successful at MCV
Hospitals as it has been at Johns
Hopkins University Hospitals (the only
other hospital in the nation which has
used the course), it will expand to
include all MCV employees who meet
the public.
" The entirety of the MCV staff has
always shown t h e greatest
consideration for the patient and his
family." said Charles Sweat, MCV
Hospitals Administrator. "This is why
we will be the first hospita l in Virginia
to en list t he service of the TWA school
in a program for hospita l personnel
who meet patients and the pu blic."
"Every service area of the hospi tal
wi ll be affected : from delivery of a
patient's food tray to accommodating
the family's request for help or
information " he said .
"As part of our responsibility as a
university hospital, we should be on
the frontier. The program will help us
take better care of people." Sweat
added.